Agreed, he was great.

On the other hand, isn't condescending at all.

I don't think you know what condescending means if you think that comment was condescending. I'm surprised you didn't call me pretentious for using the word "tedious"

There's usually an Academy Award Challenge over in DVD Talk every February where the goal is to watch films that won or were nominated. You should participate. You can catch up on the other 1/4 of nominees since 1928.

Actually, there have been shockers many time in the Foreign Language category. The reason is Rule 13, which strangely enough mandates that in order to vote for the Best Foreign Language film, the Acedemy member must have seen all the nominees in an Acedemy theater. That makes it a much smaller subset of voters than the whole Acedemy and can make for a different than expected outcome sometimes.

Cloud Atlas

Sometimes, yes. But as was the case with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Life Is Beautiful, not this time.

I also don't get why everyone isn't discussing this glaring omission / robbery

Yeah, not even one stinkin' technical award! Especially visuals.

I really like Leo in Django much better than Waltz. Also, Kelly Reilly not getting a nom for Flight is a big surprise she was great in it.

If nothing else, why not Makeup? It was far superior to the nominated Les Miz.

Best Picture
Life of Pi

Best Director
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Best Actress
Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

Supporting Actor
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)


My early picks. I still haven't seen Zero Dark Thirty, The Impossible, Flight, or The Sessions.

edit: I saw Les Miserables, so I changed one of my picks.

I think Silver Linings and Amour should come out for director, with Argo and Zero Dark going in.

I haven't seen Flight but does Denzel actually act in it or does he play Denzel where he just screams his lines?

I haven't seen Amour, but of the ones I have Silver Linings Playbook is the only one who deserved so many nominations.

But this is no surprise. The academy has their collective heads up their collective asses.

Movie deserved as many nominations as it received.

I'm ineligible to judge whether The Pirates! Band of Misfits was a worthy selection because I fell asleep and didn't feel compelled to go back and finish it. And me a big Aardman fan.

Wait a sec, Sally Field was nominated for Lincoln?!

Let's just say that Academy members received a timely delivery of tuna club sandwiches to ensure that one.

lol

I... DON'T... LIKE YOU!!!!


And Jim Shooter doesn't like you either.


Go on... get out of here... go....

It was too hokey

It was too daring.

It wasn't too groiny.